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The MSN servers are a bit more strict about what's allowed in emails than the libpurple utility function. Usually, they just return an error about the specific email and continue on with the rest, but for colons, slashes, question marks, and equal signs, they just disconnect you. So, when adding new contacts, or checking existing contacts in the address book, ignore those with slashes, question marks, and equal signs (colon is already tested). References #9505. Fixes #10549.

For information on writing a plugin for Purple, Pidgin or Finch, go
http://developer.pidgin.im and click on API.  From there, see the
HOWTOs in the "Related Pages" section.

You can also generate this documentation locally by installing
doxygen and graphviz dot, then running "make docs" in the
source tree.  The documentation will be in the docs/html directory.